1700 jobs in the diamond state as they prepare to merge with dow chemical, dupont says this is the beginning of a worldwide restructuring for the company and more cuts are expected to follow. gray hall will have more on this developing story coming up on "action news" at 5:00. it's tuesday afternoon i'm sharrie williams. >> and i'm brian taff, we have more developing news from harrisburg where governor tom wolf had heated and pointed words for lawmakers as the budget battle took a new turn. >> i'm going to exercise my constitutional right to line veto this ridiculous budget. >> this morning governor wolf shot down most of the budget demanding that lawmakers go back to the drawing board for more on the fallout we go back to john rawlins you have the latest

here. >> reporter: we started out in harrisburg this morning with the governor but the legislature is not in session so all the members are in their home district soz we came to springfield to talk to the house appropriations committee chair, a republican, first lets hear from the governor who is a democrat. >> in doing this i amex pressing the outrage that all of us philadelphians should feel after the garbage that the legislative leaders tried to dump on us. >> these are harsh words. >> i'm going to exercise my constitutional right to line veto this budget. >> wolf called it a pretend budget. >> there is a reason why the outside rating agencies have downgrading our debt there is a reason they have done that, they are telling the world what our legislators really want to

ignore and that is that our financial house is a mess. >> state funding has been cut off to schools and philadelphia borrowed a half billion to pay staff and bills and signal tropical disturbance could run out of cash next month. and the governor decided to send funds to emergency agencies and schools. >> the philadelphia school district will be able to reopen as planned. >> wolf's emergency funding is overdue, but the house appropriations bill is just wrong about trashing the gop budget, there was nothing pretend about it. >> absolutely balanced budget. >> you are saying he is wrong. >> i am a numbers guy and i can tell you it is balanced. >> balanced or not it was still 500 to $600 million smaller than the framework the governor wants, so how do you make up the difference, one issue is to

raise taxes but it's a sticking point in the budget talks, it's our understanding that the legislate your will not go back to harrisburg before the beginning of next year, everyone involved, will be in communications via telephone and emails. stay tuned. live in delaware county, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. and today's news came as a slight release for philadelphia public school officials as john eluded to, they were one month from having to close and this is a step in the right direction. >> the governor is in a tight spot and i'm appreciative he is releasing money allowing us to go beyond january 29th and supporting his call for additional money for public

education here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> dr. hite added how much money will be distributed and it's unclear how much of a reprieve philadelphia schools will end up getting. >> it's time now for a check of accuweather forecast. >> the mess is not exclusive for harrisburg and we are all dealing with a rainy mess. when will it end. >> it's pretty much off the coast but clouds are lingering and the kids are home from school saying bring some sunshine and we want to get outdoors and play, as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan low pressure is now south of boston and brought a wintry mix from the poconos into new england and clearing southern new england and the clouds lagging behind. we are shy of an inch and .75 inch on average from allentown to trenton to wilmington to atlantic city, uniform through the entire area.

temperature-wise, it's 51 in philadelphia now, almost 10 degrees this afternoon and 70s to the south and colder air to the south and west and that will be sliding in as we get closer to the new year, as we look ahead to the accuweather forecast, areas of fog tonight and some more showers coming in tomorrow before the sunshine returns, we'll have the timing sharrie of those showers and how many sunny days we have on tap. >> if we can just get through the rain then. >> as a reminder, you take "action news" with you on the go into the new year, load up the mobile devices over the holiday with our 6 abc apps, see stormtracker 6 live double scan any time and watch your favorite programming on the go and they are all available at 6abc.com/apps. as we have been telling you here the lack of snow is hurting ski resorts and now spring mountain suffered a one two

punch on christmas eve. that pair took a four wheeler on a joy ride and then stole hundreds of dollars worth of tools and equipment. annie mccormick will have more on the investigation coming up at 4:30. >> snow it may be hard to find in our neck of the woods and in other parts of the country it's a different story of snow and rain coming down. from the plains to the northeast, a massive storm has leveled homes and put roads under water and brought entire cities to a snowy stand still. it's the first taste of winter to the east coast and areas from the north can see a foot of snow before the day is over. we are heading to boston where a driver lost control on i-95 slamming into a guardrail after the sun came up drivers were forced to take it slow as hundreds of transportation crews worked to keep roads clear, in

chicago snow and sleet brought traffic at both of the city's airports to a halt. more than 1500 flights are canceled since yesterday. and a rare winter flood forced an entire town of 500 people to evacuate in missouri. torrential rains that have fall and since the weekend have caused rivers to swell into the neighborhoods and at least 18 deaths in missouri and illinois are being blamed on the flooding. officials in texas say the same storm is hampering efforts from this weekend's tornadoes, cold and ice is making it difficult for crews to sift through the rubble and debris. after 11 days, an international manhunt for a funltive from texas is now over. 18-year-old ethan couch, the so-called affluenza teen and his mother were found in mexico.

this is the first image out of mexico, of ethan thereafter his arrest, you can see his blond hair and goatee dyed black, this blurry picture of his mom tanya, authorities say she refused to stay still for the photo and she changed her haircutting it. after the teenager allegedly violated his probation. >> we found out they planned to disappear, and had something akin to a going away party before they left town. >> couch was just 16 years ole when he killed four people driving drunk in 2013, he was sentenced to only probation using what is called the affluenza defense, now 18 yeared old he disappeared after this video showing him playing beer

pong was posted on twitter. couch and his mom are heading back to the u.s. and if they can find a way they'll prosecute her as well. >> i will expect they will find a way. >> another chapter in this story. now matt pellman is standing by with the traffic report. >> is that a camera? >> we are trying to see. can you see anything. we are stuck in the soup this afternoon brian and sharrie, here in east falls this is the city avenue bridge, if you look very closely you can make out all the cars trying to get in east falls and manayunk, but what you can't see is right about there is the lincoln drive, which is shut down. that is why we have big delays spilling back to kelly drive and the city avenue bridge and lincoln is closed in both directions because of a crash it's putting a lot of extra volume in east falls this

afternoon, if i were you and use the lincoln drive stay on the roosevelt. and route 1, the baltimore pike portion a crash at meetingsville lane and this is on the roosevelt boulevard approaching woodhaven, emergency construction is blocking the two right lanes of the inner drive. and burlington county, a crash involving a vehicle into a pole. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this tuesday afternoon. people are complaining about the stand still in east falls at ridge avenue, because of the closure of the lincoln drive. we'll update you again in the next half hour. still a lot to come on "action news" at 4:00 today, including the continued war of words in the race for president. what republican frontrunner donald trump is saying about hi rivals on both sides of the

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the chicago police officer that killed 17-year-old laquan mcdonald pleaded not guilty to murder charges at his arraignment today. jason vandyke shot mcdonald 16 times last year, police say that the teen had a knife but dash-cam video shows that he was veering away from vandyke before he was shot. the entire chicago police department is under federal review. to politics now, and the war of words between donald trump and his rivals continues to dominate headlines in the race for president this as trump announces his very first advertising blitz before the first primary elections. >> reporter: good evening

alicia, donald trump has not had to spend a lot of money to get a lot of air time but some polls show candidates gaining ground he is not taking chances in these final weeks before the primaries. >> donald trump announced via twitter his first major advertising blitz in three early voting polls. >> i am in first place, jeb bush spent $59 million and done. >> bush arousing trump's anger when asked about donald trump's recent attacks on bill clinton. >> i think that donald trump voted for him and was a democrat at the time and donated money to their campaign. >> and now she thinks he can unleash her husband with his terrible women abuse while playing the woman card on me she

is wrong. >> and the have you goneger term that started this feud when describing hillary clinton's loss to barack obama in 2008. that is a common word in new york and means to be beaten badly. hillary clinton is shrugging off the trump's hard word. >> this is a consequenceal election in so many ways because we have twork do. >> meantime marco rubio picks up a big endorsement, campaigning with benghazi chair. >> and bad weather as stalled rubio's planned bus tour, that is not a problem wore donald trump holding a press conference on route to his iowa rally on board of his luxury jet. channel 6 "action news." alicia? >> thank you. as president barack obama heads into the final year of his term, a new poll suggests that

americans are divided on the legacy he leaves behind, a new cnn orc poll says that most americans are not happy with the way the u.s. is governed. when it comes to the president himself, 37% of them say he has brought positive change to the country but the president did poll well in at least two issues, 52% of people say they approve of his handling of the economy and 59% approve of his work on climate change and as president barack obama heads into his final year those are a mixed bag of poll numbers. retailers say that spending this year was up significantly, according to mastercard pulse spending report, spending increased 8% from last year. the majority of shopping happened in traditional stores

and online shopping up 20% year over year. amazon saw a spike in prime membership, 3 million more people signed up for the service in the third week of december alone. trying to get the two day shipping and access to streaming video and music all for $99 a year, the company says the service has tens of millions of members but declined to be more specific. >> now a look at the day's closing numbers, wall street a good day there, the dow-up 193 points and the nasdaq up 67 points and the s&p up they points on the day. >> a nice day on wall street, i must admit i'm a prime member. i needed the free shipping quickly. >> it's time now for the accuweather forecast. >> the forecast everything but prime adam joseph is standing by with the details on the gloom. >> it has been almost a week now

since we have had full sunshine from start to finish on a day and eventually it will come but for now the low clouds are here and fog and most of the top of liberty one and two, probably not the best views from the observation deck on the top there, overall the rain has stopped and the drizzle as well. the visibility, 7 miles in philadelphia and 2.5 in allentown and trenton a mile and a half, and better as you head to the south with pretty much what we call perfect visibility. and 10 is the best you can be from millville down to wildwood. temperatures 40 in allentown and 44 in reading and 53 in wilmington and 56 in millville and 54 in cape may, a chill in the air with the low clouds and the damp ground and the numbers are still running 10 degree address above normal in a few spots, as we look at satellite and radar, it has quieted down after the massive storm cut across the deep south and right through chicago, the great lakes

and now into northern new england, and there is a cold front dragging its heels into the carolinas and the panhandle of florida and that kicks a wave of energy our way tomorrow late afternoon and tomorrow evening, as we look at the accumulated rain, this shouldn't look like this, overall at fayetteville, 5 to 10 inches of rain and saint lute 2 to 5 inches of rain and there is flooding in the midwest especially on the mississippi where the storm cut through the heart of the nation over the last 24 hours and december locally we are breaking a lot of records and nationally when you talk about tornadoes, this december we have eight straight days of tornadoes in the lower 48 mainly in the deep south from texas to north carolina, between that stretch of december 21st and 28th, 72 tornadoes reported, pretty rare for this time of year. 37 in allentown and 42 in wilmington and 42 in millville

ain lot of clouds and areas of fog will stick around throughout the entire overnight hours. as we look at the four day at 4:00 forecast, evening showers develop and any hints of sun could be many at a warm 56 degrees and as we end it's year on thursday, sun and clouds and a little more in the way of brightening to the sky and 52 warm degrees and brisk and chilly, for the mummers parade 46 and windchills in the 30s and chilly on saturday, we'll take the chill for the sunshine with a temperature of 43 degrees, we'll show you the seven day in the next half hour. >> the tye dye weather forecast. >> still to come on "action news" at 4:00, a new jersey man is behind bars for impersonating a cop, the person he pulled over that was able to blow his cover.

and now flowers down under is not drawing crowds because of what it looks like. you have to smell the bloom. >> this is coming up in big talkers, do you remember your first taste of bacon, this little toddler of never forget his. this is going wildly viral.

nows of flower fanatics flocked to see and especially to smell a flower that truly stinks. it's a corpse flower and takes ten-years to bloom and the flowers only last a day and when it does bloom it releases an odor that smells like garbage or a dead animal and the odor helps it survive in the wild. a north jersey man is

arrested for impersonating a police officer after he allegedly tried to pull over the wrong die, richard goldrich is suspected of trying to pull over an off-duty police officer on the garden state police officer. goldrich pulls behind the officer and activated emergency lights, the officer pulled over thinking it was an undercover car. he is being held now on $52,000 bail. hershey is preparing to plant the world's biggest kiss on new years eve, we are talking about a chocolate kiss, crews tested the giant hersheys kiss they plan to drop at midnight to to ring in 2016. it's dropped at the corner of chocolate and cocoa avenues. between 10,000 and 12,000 people

are expected to attend. now to come at 4:30 today, as if warm temperatures were not enough of a blow, thieves target a locatele ski resort. plus -- >> i'm mid yeah han, you have just a couple of days to donate to a charity before the end of the year to enjoy the tax savings.

"action news" continues. >> hello again and "action news" continues with an outcry for justice. parents demand justice in a crash that killed their loved ones. and hear 911 calls that saved their leader from a bear attack. >> parents know how hard it is to get toddlers to try food, but this bite of bacon is a smashing success. more coming up in big talkers. but first another blow to an area ski resort, spring mountain is hurting from the warm temperatures be lack of business, and now they are dealing with another problem, thieves. annie mccormick has the details. >> they want to know who the

grinches are that stole from his storage sheds on christmas eve. >> we had no snow so we were not open. he supplied this surveillance video to state police, the images are not great but show a pickup pull up to the front of the lodge and two people get out. and buckman believes they spent an hour on the property and took a four wheeler on a joy ride before they stole tools and equipment. >> a lot of power tools and hand tools owned by individuals and not by the company. >> spring garden went to the company's facebook page and asked for help from the public. it inpointed the time of arrival at 6:00 p.m. and that they managed to dodge a routine state police patrol by an hour. this is another blow, earlier this week they lost a quarter million dollars because of the warm temperatures this weekend they hope to be making snow. >> this is a fun job most of the

time, we see people having a good time and families smile and come here to forget about the real world and politics everything that is going on in the world and they come here to have a great time with their family. that is what we go on for. the delaware state fire marshall is investigating a deadly fire that broke out this morning in townsend, newcastle county, deputies and firefighter stoppeded to a fire on the side of pine tree road, a 54-year-old man was found dead inside. he suffered from burns and possibly smoke inhalation, they are trying to figure out how and where the fire started. today marks exactly five months since a car crash that killed three young people in the somerton section of philadelphia, the victim's family gathered for a justice walk, they are calling for charges from the july wreck that split an accura in half when it

hit a tree on sand meyer lane. passengers all died, gonzales's mom spoke to "action news" at the memorial. >> i had my daughter's birthday in september without her and thanksgiving without her and christmas without her and all i have is her ashes to kiss good night and good morning, i don't want this case forgotten about. >> another passenger and driver survived the crash and the victim's family says the driver may have been racing another car at the time but police have yet to determine a cause only to say that speed was a factor. police in chester, delaware county, are trying to figure out why a gunman shot two people late last night, officers responded to the 1400 block of schwartz street when neighbors heard gun fire, they found one man shot dead and another shot in the leg on the ground between two parked cars, so far there

are no suspects. the "action news" cam was on the scene of a crash at windward this morning, the driver lost control and hit a wall on lancaster avenue, first responders took the driver for treatment. >> well, the 9/11 calls from last week's bear attack in rock away township, new jersey, shows how calm the young boy scouts stayed as their leader's life was clearly in danger. they called 911 and helped them find them in split rock reservoir. >> he is on top of them. >> we'll keep it contained and make it a lot of smoke. >> meanwhile the leader, chris, managed to escape the bear by hitting it on the nose with a rock hammer, he too called 911. >> i'm sorry about all of

this -- >> listen there is nothing to be sorry about lets get you taken care of. >> where are you bleeding. >> left arm and left leg and neck. and head. he got me good. >> wow one of the scouts that saved his life was his own son, none of the kids were injured and friends have posted on social media that he is still recovering today. >> such a remarkable story. >> it's unbelievable how calm those kids stayed and the guy himself apologizing. >> well trained. to the accuweather forecast, another gloomy day we take a look at sky 6 hd philadelphia international airport 51 degrees the air temperature and the dew point at 47 degrees and the wind is calm and your pressure 29.98

and you can see the low lying cloud cover and fog doing damage with an hour delay and cape may the visibility is better in southern new jersey and the dew point high at 54 and westerly wind at 8 miles per hours bear green, 44 is the air temperature and wins from the north at 5, with the windchill at 42 degrees. >> as the temperatures dip closer to the woman hopefully they can make snow but no natural snow in the forecast, temperatures dip near normal and try to head back up again, we'll show you the numbers once again. >> it's tough because you don't have a small window of time. >> adam thanks. >> get the latest accuweather forecast any time at 6abc.com, there you can view storm tracker

6 hd and track any bet weather coming our way. you have probably heard a pop-up shop, a term for opening a short-term sales space but how about a pop-up mural. >> it happened today at the state museum in new jersey and the mural was inspired by the battle of trenton and all the events around that. adrian barber is spending the week creating this mural. and we'll show you are the mural will have a permanent home. >> and he was more than a k-9 officer, how the philadelphia police department is remembering their beloved zero dog tonight. >> monica thank you. a family from southhampton, new jersey got quite the surprise this morning, the baby girl was born in the front of

their pickup truck as they rushed to the hospital in voorhees, this is little portia not due until january 23rd. her mother just went to a doctor's appointment yesterday and they told her everything was fine and they told her not to expect the baby any time this year. >> was able to pull her right up to my chest and put her in my southwest shirt. he said do we have a boy or girl, i said let me check, its with a complete shock. >> late christmas early new years present, portia's father steve is giving all the credit to his wife. he said he did was drive while keesha delivered the baby on her own. and mom and dad and older sister, penelope is excited to

have a sister. >> much more to come here on "action news" at 4:00, coming up find out why you may want to grab a cup of coffee on your way to the gym. >> plus, an olive garden dinner that could cost you hundreds of dollars, what that hefty price includes that is left out making this a big talker. and before you donate your hard earned cash -- adam joseph is back with the full forecast from accuweather when "action news" at 4:00 continues.

spanish police made pay human cocaine bust they found 100 kilos of that drug found in doorways, police pulled out 176 packages and arrested six people in all and the drugs were inside of containers coming from the dominican republic.

and secret service agts were quick to stop a drone flying near the president's motorcade. he stopped flying as soon as law enforcement told him too. the drone was spotted hovering nearby but did not interrupt the motorcade. in health check you may want to grab a cup of joe on your way to the next workout, researchers on the way to the university of georgia said coffee can enhance endurance, they looked at previous studies on caffeine and sports. they looked at nine studies especially when athletes were cycling or running. >> big talkers now and millions packed times square every year on new years eve to watch the iconic ball drop, but if you are not a fan of standing outside or

a fan of crowds, and if you like a restroom to use, can you watch the ball from a nice cozy street indoors along broadway, but you'll pay a lot for that luxury. >> check this out. according to the website balldrop.com. here we go. $400 per person at the olive garden in times square on new years eve, $400 at olive garden a d.j. and open bar but no bread sticks, the view of the ball apparently it's limited. ruby tuesday charging $349 to $1700 for a vip table, you want see the ball there you'll have to go outside there, and the steepest ticket is $800 to go to b

bubba gumps. but can you see the ball there. and philadelphia's own furry instagram star with a message of hope, this is otter the pit bull and not only is he really well dressed. the rescue dog is melting all kinds of hearts on social media. leslie adopted the now 6-year-old pit bull when he was months old, he dressed him up for his insta picks, like phillies own otter balboa, and when pope francis came to town in september otter got into the spirit. the otter awakens, see him on the left. o'neal's message, adopt. there is love in every single breed and boy he is cute. >> and finally we bring you the amazing, most adorable video of the toddler tasting bacon for

the very first time. yes bacon and all of its savory christmas morning glory to the absolute delight of a california cutie, a foodie named ethan. >> bacon. >> bacon. >> i love how he closes his eyes to take in every more sell, ethan is 19 months old and has always been a little ham, not sure if the pun was intended. i like it. at one point you see ethan double fisting the bacon and eating it as fast as he can. bacon yea! so far he has more than 4 million views, you can watch the whole thing on 6abc.com. is he not the cute of the little guy.

>> that is awesome. i expect it will have a whole lot more views, and a lot of bacon. for all of us, thank you. lets get a check of the roads right now. >> no ham for us, pat pellman. >> i lot of people are off this week sharrie and brian but some people have to bring home the bacon and now they are trying to head home on this tuesday after and we wish we could cut the fat and strip the roadways of delays but it's slow on 422 from trooper 20 oaks to just past here, and then a substantial delay farther west with speeds of 14 miles per hour, because of a crash near the limerick exit. coming away from royersford, you are hitting traffic this afternoon, a live look through the fog, once again at the city avenue bridge where traffic is backed up through manayunk and east falls, can you see in the distance, some good news coming

in for us the lincoln drive just reopened on the eastbound side, getting back to normal, some congestion from the earlier accident, that closed incondrive in both directions, an accidents at the inner drive, where the auto land is on the southbound side, watch out for emergency construction, a crash in burlington township along 541, by bears chocolate house, downed wires at riverton road and a crash at 206 at 38, we'll check it again coming up in the 5:00 hour. >> thank you. meteorologist, adam joseph, back about the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast next. winter is hard on your nose.

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we have to wait for the new year to get the sunny days and that is just a couple of days away, as we look at double scan live radar all the rain we saw last night and early this morning well off to south and east and northern new england, despite no rain falling from the sky or any real drizzle we are dealing with low clouds and areas of fog developing to the north where the atmosphere is cooling, 44 in trenton and philadelphia to the south and temperatures in the 50s and atlantic city 58 and mt. pocono first saw ice last night and then a half inch of rain on top of that ice, so the slopes are still struggling and pretty much bare. as we look at visibility, half a mile in mt. pocono and 2.5 in allentown and 2 in reading. the fog is kind of positioned to the north in philadelphia and better visibility down to the south and we could see pockets of fog developing in the

overnight hours, to the north where the cold air was in place from i-95 to 495 to the north of boston, that is where we saw the mix is of snow, sleet and freezing rain and rain and down to the south a majority of rain for our area with a little bit of sleet on the onset in the lee lie valley tonight, areas of fog and 37 to 44, that 44 still above our normal high temperature for this time of year, as we go into the day on wednesday, there will be some fog in the morning and maybe we'll try to grab a little bit of sunshine during the early morning hours with temperatures climbing into the 50s tomorrow afternoon and right when we grab a few breaks of sun, new clouds come in from the south at 4:00 and it's on the mild side and then tomorrow evening, more in the way of spotty showers, developing again so a damp evening, setting up for wednesday. and then beyond that, winds of change arrive for the new year, of 46 degrees, even though it's

chilly with windchills in the 30s with wind coming out of the west northwest 7 to 14 the pat enis beginning to change and we are backing it off close toward normal despite it's slightly above as we go into the weekend, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, evening showers tomorrow and 56 and sun and clouds on new years eve, warm at 52 degrees and for the stroke of midnight between 6:00 and midnight temperatures in the 40s, so really not bad for outdoor activities and it's dry and for the mummers lots of sun and windy and chilly and feeling like the 30s and saturday and sunday mostly sunny both days, normal high 41 and we are still above norm saturday and sunday and well above it as we go into next week, i mean we are looking at sunshine sticking around and 44 to 47 not all that bad so even though folks want to see some snow, i think we'll be happy with the sun for five days

straight coming up. a sunny 2016 coming up. what's the deal with charitable giving coming up.

with more than a million charities and countless to choose from, where to spend your hard earned dollars can be tricky. nydia han has important advice to make sure your money is put to good use. >> americans donated more than $350 billion to charities last year and it's important to make sure your donations go to worthwhile donations, while they provide real aid, scam artists will not hesitate to charge you for your hard earned money. many were charged with defrauding donors of $187 million. margo gillman says you have to do your homework.

>> organizations can spend as much as marketing and overhead as they do on helping people. >> there are ways to research charities, online resources like charity navigator and charity watch and give.org from the better business bureau evaluate them on their cost and effectiveness, and they say stay away from charities that spend more than 30% to 40% of their budget on fundraising, if you would like to learn more consider volunteering first, and if you are a repeat donor, look at the returns on last year's contribution, what did they accomplish with gifts like yours and be careful of look alike charities. >> look at organizations who names and logos look more like respected charities, they are preying on your confusion. >> the leukemia society spends .75 on charitable charges, the childhood leukemia foundation spends .25 on

charitablecharges. >> they will be happy to get your contribution after have you hung up and checked out the charity. and you can claim it on your taxes even if you don't pay your bill until after the new year. and finally animal loves in north jersey are breathing a sigh of relief people were worried about a brown bear that wondered around west milford from time to time. someone spotted the bear called pedals, she walked upright on two paws because of some type of injury, check that out. "action news" told you about pedals when she gained a following on social media. >> that is it for "action news"

at 4:00, for adam joseph, alicia vitarelli join me tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. here is monica malpass with a look at what is coming up next on "action news" at 5:00. >> coming up more than 1,000 workers in delaware are losing their jobs in the coming months we are live in wilmington with the major cuts just announced at dupont. and much of the central and eastern united states are plagued by flooding today and find out which ones are being hit the hardest. we'll have those and more coming up next at 5:00.

"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. dupont employees learned today that 1700 of them will no longer have jobs. the cuts are happening throughout delaware where the company is headquartered. tuesday night and the big story on "action news" is the devastating news for so many workers in dupont. after the recent merger with dow chemical, gray hall is live with the details tonight. >> reporter: hi brian, as you

know dupont is a fixture for over 200 years in this community, for many the news of the layoffs heart breaking. >> it's news that has the community rattled. dupont announced a cut of 1700 jobs from their home state by march. >> at least keep some of the jobs here and not destroy lives. >> it's a huge blow to the economy as 20% of the delaware workforce must now look for new jobs, a company that has been around for 200 years in the state, many are surprised. >> i know a couple of people that work for dupont and they kind of said they were actually worrying about it and this is horrible to hear about it. >> they say it's cost production efforts and their merge with dow chemical that should take place next year, the company ceo september this memo announcing the cuts and